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Socialist Students’ statement on Your Party conference

Socialist Students’ statement on Your Party conference The long-awaited Your Party conference took place in Liverpool at the end of last month. Socialist Students members intervened within the conference, including speaking from the platform, and are looking forward to the opportunity to work within Your Party to fight for young people and socialism. Despite the…

York students protest £1,000 bursary cut

Louie Nardini, York Socialist Students Socialist Students organised a demonstration with the York uni Your Party society, opposing the bursary cut put forward by the university management. The £1,000 cut affects working-class students and others, struggling to keep up with the cost-of-living crisis. But it also affects medical students and refugee students, who also face…

Come to Socialist Students conference

Youth get organised – Fight for socialist change University of Manchester, 14 February 2026 The genocidal siege of Gaza. Climate breakdown that threatens the existence of life on our planet. Governments whipping up racism, sexism, and all forms of division. Attacks on the right to protest and more authoritarian laws. There is no shortage of…

Graduates attacked by stealth

Dean Young, Liverpool Socialist Students As a recent graduate attempting to find a reliable job, I took an interest in one of the hidden headlines in Labour’s Budget – graduates are being ‘stealth taxed’ £7.4 billion. What is a ‘stealth tax’? The government is freezing the salary threshold at which graduates begin paying back their…

Liverpool students’ Guild unionisation campaign

Niven Day, Liverpool Socialist Students Socialist Students has engaged in a campaign to establish trade union recognition within the Liverpool Guild of Students. The Guild hires over 200 staff. This includes bar staff, cleaners, baristas, and other roles. Despite having many commercial staff, there is a lack of a recognised trade union to represent the…

Campaign update: York uni cuts bursaries by 50% and Liverpool students protest

Louie Nardini, York Socialist Students The marginalisation of working-class students continues with this latest round of cuts at the University of York. Socialist Students has been doing campaign stalls against the 50% cut to bursaries for poorer first-year students. Instead of £2,000, they now receive £1,000. With university life already hard enough for low-income households,…

Solidarity with Linksjugend

Opposing the capitalist Israeli state is not antisemitism Defend the right to debate the way forward in the Middle East Socialist Students steering committee Socialist Students sends our solidarity to members of Linksjugend [‘solid] – the youth section of the German left party Die Linke – who have been subjected to vicious public attacks for their criticism…

Herts students challenge uni and SU inaction on sexism

Morgan Tritton, Hertfordshire Socialist Students Hertfordshire Socialist Students is campaigning for action and funding from university management and the student union to end sexism and violence against women on campus. In April, Student Council passed a motion unanimously, mandating Herts Students’ Union to pressure the university to improve incident-reporting systems, introduce prevention and education campaigns,…

Socialist Students supporting strikes against uni cuts

Sheffield Socialist Students supports UCU strikes Joseph McHale, Sheffield Socialist Students 17 November was the first day of joint strike action by the University and College Union (UCU) at both the University of Sheffield (UoS) and Sheffield Hallam University. Hallam had also gone on strike a week earlier. After a busy first morning of picketing…

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